Actress Brittany Murphy, best known by toon fans for her work as Luanne on FOX’s King of the Hill, has been cast as the voice of Peter Pan’s pixie pal in Tinker Bell, an all-new, CG-animated feature. The film will be released in the fall of 2007 by DisneyToon Studios and Walt Disney Home Entertainment as part of the new Disney Fairies franchise, which launched with a successful publsihing program in September of 2005.
Murphy’s will be the first voice ever given to Tinker Bell, who has been a silent character up to this point. As the star of her own movie, the sassy sprite will introduce kids to her secret, magical world of Pixie Hollow and a new circle of enchanting fairy friends.
Disney Consumer Products is supporting the Disney Fairies property with a series of best-selling chapter books, small dolls, role-play items, a Disney Fairies magazine launch in Europe and a multi-category product launch scheduled for spring, 2007. Speaking at the 2006 Licensing Int’l expo in New York this week, DCP chairman Andy Mooney expressed confidence that retail sales for the current fiscal year would reach $23 billion, an increase of 10% over last year.
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