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Disney's upcoming return to hand drawn animation.

Bewitching Italian actress Monica Bellucci will star opposite Nicolas Cage in The Sorcerer's Apprentice for Walt Disney Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

Weak theme park and film studio results are blamed. Still, Disney shares rise 4% in after-hours trading as executives hint at happier days to come.

It's still months away from theaters, but John Lasseter has unveiled a few clips from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog."

Walt Disney Co. reached a deal to buy a nearly 30% stake in Hulu, the Web-video site, and will put full episodes of ABC TV shows on it.

Christmas will come to the Croisette, when Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, director Robert Zemeckis, and producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke from Disney's A Christmas Carol kick off the holiday season early at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, May 18. They will unveil the first look ever in 3-D of the classic Dickens tale as re-envisioned by director Robert Zemeckis.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and IMAX Corporation today announced that Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released to IMAX(R) theatres simultaneously with the film's wide release on March 5, 2010.

YouTube and Disney are close to a deal to distribute video clips from ABC, ESPN and other Disney properties on the video-sharing site.

Animation World Network reports that Disney Pictures has announced that Hayao Miyazaki's latest film, Ponyo (on a Cliff by the Sea) will hit American theaters on August 14th, 2009.