Mister Hand is excited to see what happens with a live-action adaptation of Disney’s Mulan — provided they ditch all those not-so-sweet tunes.

This Christmas, Disney returns to its beloved 2D animation with The Princess and the Frog. A lot of buzz has been surrounding the main character’s ethnicity, because this Disney princess… is black.

Yesterday we ran down the upcoming slate that was announced by Disney and Pixar, which included the upcoming animated tales of Bolt, Tinker Bell, Pixar’s Up, Toy Story 3, Princess and the Frog, Rapunzel, Newt, The Bear and the Bow, Cars 2 and King of the Elves. Today, Disney released a bunch of cool promo photos from these upcoming projects.

Worried that the wizards at Disney and Pixar are fresh out of ideas after Wall-E? Well, I can’t imagine why you would be but if you are, allow me to quickly put that fear to rest. Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios sent out a press release yesterday of their queue of future projects all the way through 2012.

There are few movies that take me back to my childhood the way that 101 Dalmatians does…

Take a look at some never-before-released animation cells from legendary Disney artist Marc Davis.

Resident Disney historian David Smith gave us a peek at some of the correspondence between Walt Disney and Dodie Smith, the author of the original book “The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.”

ter showing advanced clips of the film to press in February 2008, producer Jeannine Russo and director Brad Raymond were on hand to answer some questions about the film.

After being shut down then resurrected, the TinkerBell movie is back up and running.

FSR’s Kevin Carr invades the Disney Animation Studios in Burbank and learns how to draw Dalmations.