Rapunzel is an upcoming American CGI film created and presented by Walt Disney Animation Studios featuring the voices of Kristin Chenoweth and Dan Fogler. It will be the 50th animated feature produced by the Studio, planned for release in 2010. The story is based on the classic German fairy tale Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm.

Doeri Welch-Greiner, the production manager for the movie, says that “The original version was that a girl got pulled from the modern world and replaced Rapunzel (Kristin Chenoweth), and Rapunzel got turned into a squirrel. But we’re on a clearer, more classic fairy-tale sort of track right now with Dean Wellins as co-director; he was one of the story guys on Iron Giant and a Disney animator for a long time. It really plays on the mystery of the girl in the tower, and I think it’s really going to be great with Dean’s story sense and sense of staging, and the artistry that Glen brings to it, we hope we can bring the artistry of the movie to a different place.”

Keane also promises that he’s going back to Rapunzel’s literary origins to do a traditional, character-driven fairy tale that speaks to a modern audience. “It’s a story of the need for each person to become who they are supposed to be and for a parent to set them free so they can become that. It will be a musical and a comedy and have a lot of heart and sincerity. I think that’s what Disney needs to do right now. No one else can do it. We should not be embarrassed or make excuses for doing a fairy tale.

On October 9, 2008, it was reported Glen Keane and Dean Wellins would be stepping down as directors and would be replaced by a new team of Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, director and storyboard director of 2008’s Bolt.

Confirmed Cast:

* Rapunzel – Kristin Chenoweth
* Father Sam / Mr. Sunton – David Schwimmer
* Prince Flynn – Dan Fogler
* Mother Amy / Woman on T.V. – Carolyn Lawrence
* Narrator – Kevin Linehan
* Father Sam (singing) – Wayne Allwine
* Grandma Claire – Pam Hyatt
* Young Prince Flynn – Matthew Gray Gubler
* Grandpa Franklin – Peter Sallis
* Madame Gothel/Evil Witch – Grey DeLisle

Disney’s Rapunzel is set to hit the silverscreen on Christmas Day of 2010.

Disney has released the first set of movie posters for the said film, the one showing Jake as the Prince of Persia and the other showing the gorgeous Gemma Arterton, Jake’s leading lady.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is based on the massively popular series of videogames, the story sees Gyllenhaal as a ‘rogue prince’ Dastan and Gemma Arterton as ‘mysterious princess’ Tamina, who reluctantly team up to safeguard an ancient dagger that could release the Sands of Time, allowing its possessor to reverse time and rule the world.

Also starring in the movie are Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) and Alfred Molina (Spider Man 3) under the helm of Mike Newell, director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Prince of Persia is coming to theaters on May 28, 2010.

Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter:

Helena Bonham Carter is the Red Queen:

Anne Hattaway is the White Queen:

Mia Wasikowska is Alice:

Alice in Wonderland is due for release on March 5, 2010.

The movie is based from E.D. Baker’s classic fairy tale entitled “The Frog Princess.” It marks the studio’s comeback to hand-drawn animation since Aladdin and The Lion King.

It doesn’t mean Disney will no longer make computer-generated animation with Pixar. As a matter of fact, sequels to Disney Pixar blockbuster hits like Cars, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo are already in the works. They’ll just see to it that there will be a hand-drawn animated feature to come out at least once every two years.

Here are some stills from the upcoming “The Princess and the Frog”:

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is coming to theaters on Christmas Day and on January 2010 in the Philippines.

G-Force is the first live-action Disney movie to be produced in Disney Digital 3-D, not including two concert films, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. This is also Jerry Bruckheimer’s first 3-D film.

G-Force features the voices of Nicholas Cage, Steve Buscemi, Tracy Morgan, Penelope Cruz and Sam Rockwell.

PLOT: The film revolves around a team of trained secret agent guinea pigs: Darwin, Juarez, and Blaster. The team takes on a mission for the US government to stop an evil billionaire who plans to destroy the world with household appliances. Before they can accomplish their mission, the FBI shuts them down and they are sentenced to a pet shop. Darwin, Juarez, Blaster, and their new friends Hurley and Bucky (who is a hamster) must escape the cage and team up with mole Speckles and fly Mooch to defeat the villain, stop his threat, and save the world.

Video Link: G-Force – HD Trailer

Earth follows the remarkable story of three animal families – a mother polar bear and her cubs in the Arctic, a family of elephants on the edges of the Kalahari desert and a humpback whale and her calf as they undertake a 6,500-km. migration.

The film is directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield, shot by some 60 cameramen and narrated by James Earl Jones.

Prepare for goosebumps as you proceed to watch the trailer on the link below:

Video Link: Disney’s Earth HD Trailer

“High School Musical 4″ will debut on the Disney Channel in 2010, marking the return of the hit franchise on television after the third installment hit the silver screen last year.

Disney Channel said in a statement the story would feature a music- and dance-filled love triangle set against cross-town rivalry between fictional high schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

It will introduce a new cast of characters since the roles of the original stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale in “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” have graduated already.

The High School Musical franchise and its spin-offs have proved to be a global hit since the first tv movie and it’s sequel became the 1st and 2nd most-watched in America for all time.

The first two TV movies have been seen by 300 million viewers in more than 100 countries, including India, China and Russia, produced a hit soundtrack album, a concert tour and a vast range of toys, clothes and books.

“High School Musical 3: Senior Year” — the first to be made as a feature movie — has grossed more than $250 million at the worldwide box office since its October 2008 release.

The stars of High School Musical are now continuing their careers in Hollywood. Vanessa Hudgens is set to appear in the movie Bandslam. Ashley Tisdale is shooting her film They Came from Upstairs. Zac Efron, on the other hand, starred in Me and Orson Welles and he’s now promoting his new teen-flick 17 Again.

It will be the first 2D traditional animated film since 2004’s Home on the Range and the forty-ninth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. It is being directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, directors of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, with songs and score composed by Randy Newman and with the voices of Anika Noni Rose (as Princess Tiana), Oprah Winfrey, Keith David, Jim Cummings, John Goodman, Jenifer Lewis, Bruno Campos, Michael-Leon Wooley and Peter Bartlett.

The film, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, will be an American fairy tale, Broadway-style musical set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A prince named Naveen from the land of Maldonia, is transformed into a frog by the evil scheming voodoo magician Dr. Facilier. The frog prince asks Tiana to break the spell by kissing him. However, the kiss doesn’t break the spell but rather makes Tiana a frog, as well. Together the two of them must reach the good voodoo priestess of the Bayou, Mama Odie, while befriending a trumpet playing alligator and a hopelessly romantic firefly along the way.

Walt Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is coming to theaters worlwide come Christmas day.

Video Link: The Princess and the Frog – Teaser

Also starring in The Proposal are Dennis O’Hare, Malin Akerman and Mary Steenburgen under the helm of Anne Fletcher.

Gist: A book editor is forced to marry her male assistant in order to stay in the country. When they travel to Alaska to meet his family, the new couple has to fake their way through a surprise wedding thrown by his parents.

Video Link: The Proposal HQ Trailer

Gist: A taxi driver who gets more than get bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they’re also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

Video Link: Race to Witch Mountain – Movie Trailer HD

Gist: Hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson’s life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true. He attempts to take advantage of the phenomenon, incorporating his own aspirations into one outlandish tale after another, but it’s the kids’ unexpected contributions that turn Skeeter’s life upside down.

Video Link: Bedtime Stories Trailer

G-Force. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3-D film to the big screen with a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs (voiced by Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Penelope Cruz) discover that the fate of the world is in their paws.

Up. From Disney/Pixar comes this comedic adventure about Carl (voice of Ed Asner) who has spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old) gives him a new lease on life.

Bedtime Stories. An adventure comedy about a hotel handyman (Adam Sandler) whose life is changed forever when the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to mysteriously come true.

Race to Witch Mountain. A thrilling action-adventure about a hard-luck cab driver (Dwayne Johnson), whose life is thrown into chaos when two apparent “runaway” teenagers jump into his taxi. He soon realizes that the kids possess exceptional paranormal powers.

A Christmas Carol. A multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis. Starring Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge, the film captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking, performance-capture 3D motion picture event.

Confessions of a Shopaholic. In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca (Isla Fisher) is a fun-loving girl who is really good at shopping–a little too good, perhaps. She dreams of working for her favorite fashion magazine, but can’t quite get her foot in the door.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua. A pampered, diamond-clad Chihuahua named Chloe (voice of Drew Barrymore) enjoys her luxurious lifestyle so much, she hardly notices Papi, a tough looking Chihuahua who happens to be head-over-paws for the fashionista pooch. But when Chloe gets lost in the rough streets of Mexico, Papi heads south of the border to rescue his true love.

Surrogates. FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves–fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles–enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes.

The Proposal. When high-powered book editor (Sandra Bullock) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds), who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own.

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. The Jonas Brothers head to the big screen–in Disney Digital 3D–in this high-energy rockumentary. The film blends excerpts from the Brothers’ red-hot “Burning Up” concert tour, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, off-the-wall segments, and a lot of JB-style humor-giving fans never-before-seen insights into the lives of Kevin, Joe and Nick.

Hannah Montana: The Movie. The music-filled comedy adventure based on Disney Channel’s blockbuster television series, “Hannah Montana,” in which Miley Cyrus stars as a teenage girl Miley Stewart who lives a secret life as a pop star. The film follows Miley as Hannah’s soaring popularity threatens to take over her life.

When in Rome. An ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome where she defiantly plucks magic coins from a “foolish” fountain of love, inexplicably igniting the passion of an odd group of suitors (Josh Duhamel, Dax Shepard, Jon Heder and Danny DeVito).

Doubt. Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams star in the gripping film adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play about the quest for truth, the forces of change, and the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction.

Adventureland. Set in the summer of 1987, the film concerns an uptight recent college grad (Jesse Eisenberg) who is forced to take a minimum wage job at the local amusement park. The experience helps him to loosen up a bit as he finds first love (Kristen Stewart), forms new friendships and matures just in time to enter the real world in the fall.

The Boy in Striped Pajamas. Eight year-old Bruno is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their Berlin home to a desolate area where the lonely boy finds no-one to play with. Crushed by boredom and compelled by curiosity, he ignores his mother’s repeated instructions not to explore the back garden and heads for the “farm” he has seen in the near distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his own age who lives a parallel, alien existence on the other side of a barbed wire fence.

(Walt Disney Press Release)