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While surfing the net I found these awesome Disney characters in the Marvel Universe mock-ups. They look great! And I for one would love to see this actually implemented, at least in some form of publicity stunt if that.

The images come from screencrave.com where they have the best they’ve found, including Snow White with the X-Men, the 7 dwarfs terrorizing Spawn, Wall-E with live-action Spider-Man, and Mickey dressed as Spider-Man, Donald Duck as Captain America & Goofy as Thor.

I have to say that as with the screencrave blogger, my personal favorite is Mickey as Wolverine, which is why I featured that one here. Giving the iconic happy mouse the bad-ass look kinda makes him seem way cooler.

In a surprise move, Walt Disney Co. has bought Marvel Enterprises. With this news coming out today, you can expect Marvel comics characters to start appearing all over Disney media soon.

This at first looks like a very smart, though weird, move for Disney. Since they have a huge market for girls already in place with franchises like the Princesses and for tweens with Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers and the like, but essentially no market geared towards boys. Now with all the comic heroes they can get with the Marvel merger, they can attract little boys and teenagers to the new Disney world, which will include the addition of the characters to the various Disney theme parks around the world, their television channels like ABC, ABC Family, Disney Channel, Disney XD, and many more.

The deals Marvel had with other studios for their movie franchises will keep intact, at least until those contracts end. So the X-Men will still be released under 2oth Century Fox, Iron Man through Paramount, and Spider Man by Sony Pictures. So Disney will be in a partnership with 3 big rivals very soon.

So now you’ll probably see Cinderella hooking up with Iron Man on your next visit to Disneyland!

What was once to be a Mexican production has turned into an Australian spectacle. The third film in the Chronicles of Narnia series, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” has started production in Queensland, Australia, yesterday.

This production was set to start this year in Baja Studios in Mexico, where notable films like Titanic and Master and Commander were filmed. But when fights between Disney and Walden Media started after the disappointing run of “Prince Caspian“, the production stalled, FOX came in to buy the rights to the film series, and budget cuts ensued. The production had to be moved elsewhere.

Only the two youngest actors from the previous films return in this part of the story, along with Prince Caspian and Reepicheep from the previous film. Principal photography is scheduled to run until November 2009, and after a year of post-production, it will be released for the Holidays in 2010.

Disney kicked off the very first 3D panel at San Diego Comic Con International with presentations from their upcoming digital 3D films. They went in order of how they’ll be released, starting with Robert Zemeckis’s “A Christmas Carol“.

This film, starring Jim Carrey in 8 different characters, will be nothing new to Zemeckis, it’s his followup to 2007′s “Beowulf“, a motion capture extravaganza presented in digital 3D. In the panel, moderated by Ratatouille‘s Patton Oswalt, Zemeckis continued his admiration of the technology he’s been using since “The Polar Express“, and in a Q&A session where he was asked about a possible sequel to his 80′s hit “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?“, he just replied he wouldn’t confirm or deny that it’s going to happen, but if it does, that the 2D characters would continue being 2D as it was in the original film.

The second part of Disney’s presentation brought Tim Burton to his first ever Comic Con appearence. They showed a trailer almost identical to the one that was released yesterday, but according to descriptions, it was edited differently, this time with a soundtrack of MGMT‘s “Time to Pretend“. Afterwards in the Q&A session, Burton mentioned that the story in this film is based on all of Lewis Carroll’s work, not just the “Alice” novel. The panel ended with him bringing out his “immaginary friend”, Johnny Depp, and announcing that his next project will be yet again with Depp, an adaptation of the cult tv series “Dark Shadows“.

The third section was dedicated to “Tron Legacy” (click the image for a larger version), which is apparently the title the sequel is getting. They just finished shooting a scene in Vancouver last week, and they quickly cut it, where Sean Flynn goes into the old Flynn Arcade and sees the original Tron arcade video game. They also showed concept art for the interior of the computer system, an updated disc wars image, designs for the new light cycles and the 2-person lightrunner, and other random stuff. Also of note, they mentioned that Daft Punk has already composed 24 tracks for the soundtrack Nothing that big from the Tron panel this year.

And that’s it for now… more Comic Con info to come, for sure.