After years of uncertainty, Disney has finally made official the beginning of its new fairy tale production, Rapunzel. The news came from the official blog of the animator Hyrum Osmond, who wrote about a party at Disney marking the launch of the production process of the movie, which will be released in December 2010.

Disney content, including movies and television shows, may be coming to a website near you, for a price.

The trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland released

Walt Disney Co's Japan unit said it would sell movies on flash memory cards as small as a fingernail so that people can watch them on mobile phones and other portable devices.

Sigh. I had such high hopes for Disney's staged version of The Little Mermaid. After all, it's a beloved story, one of Disney's most popular movies, and has phenomenal, memorable music. After Disney's fairy-tale Beauty & the Beast and imaginative Lion King, how could it go wrong?

On August 29, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Playhouse Disney will air several episodes featuring Pluto plus a brand new episode based on a Disney classic

Jim Hill reviews this fun new book from Disney Press, which is illustrated with those “Nightmare Before Christmas” –themed tarot cards from Madame Leota’s séance circle

This update will cover up to last Friday (the 17th). I know that there were several shows released on the 18th-20th, (WDW Today, WDW Radio, CB, BOG, Running to Disney, Inside the Magic, Magical Definition, Mouse Comedy, Mouse Guest, and Zip-A-Dee-Doo Pod, and probably more) but I'm going to include those in this upcoming Friday's update.