The Princess and the Frog
2009 Disney animated film
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| March 2025 | Disney announces that the 'Tiana' series has been shelved due to production challenges. A special featuring the characters is in early planning stages, with Joyce Sherri and Steve Anderson attached as writer and directors. |
| November 15 2024 | Tiana's Bayou Adventure opens at Disneyland. |
| June 28 2024 | Tiana's Bayou Adventure opens at Magic Kingdom. |
| 2023 | The soundtrack re-emerged in the UK charts, reaching #28 on the UK Soundtrack Albums chart, demonstrating its enduring popularity over a decade after its initial release. |
| 2023 | Tiana and other characters from the film make a cameo appearance in the short film Once Upon a Studio. |
| 2023 | Tiana is featured as a main character in Lego's animated special Disney Princess: The Castle Quest and makes a cameo appearance in the short film Once Upon a Studio. |
| October 2023 | Joyce Sherri replaced Stella Meghie as the writer and director of the Tiana series. |
| October 6 2023 | The film was re-released in cinemas across the UK for one week as part of Disney's 100th anniversary celebration. |
| May 2023 | Disneyland's Splash Mountain closes in preparation for the new attraction. |
| March 2023 | The Tiana series page was updated to 'coming soon to Disney+' with the release date removed, pushing the anticipated premiere to 2024. |
| January 2023 | Magic Kingdom's Splash Mountain closes in preparation for the new attraction. |
| 2022 | An alternate version of Tiana was introduced as a playable character in the video game Disney Mirrorverse. |
| September 2022 | At the D23 Expo, Disney confirms original voice actors Rose, Campos, Wooley, and Lewis will reprise their roles for the attraction. |
| July 2022 | Disney announces the attraction will be called Tiana's Bayou Adventure, with a planned opening in late 2024. |
| June 2022 | Anika Noni Rose discusses Disney's attraction plans during an interview on Live with Kelly and Ryan. |
| January 2022 | Jennifer Lee revealed that Stella Meghie was interested in developing a live-action adaptation of 'The Princess and the Frog'. |
| November 12 2021 | Stella Meghie was initially announced as the writer and director for the Tiana series, making her the first African-American director to helm a Walt Disney Animation Studios project. |
| December 2020 | Disney announced a television spin-off series titled 'Tiana' for Disney+, with Anika Noni Rose set to reprise her role as the main character. |
| June 2020 | Disney officially announces the Splash Mountain retheme to The Princess and the Frog-themed attraction amid George Floyd protests and online petitions. |
| 2019 | Disney artists completed work on the independent hand-drawn animated film Hullabaloo and the Netflix animated film Klaus, continuing efforts to preserve hand-drawn animation. |
| 2019 | Dr. Facilier appears in Disney Channel's Descendants 3, alongside his daughter Celia. |
| 2019 | Disney begins development of rethemed Splash Mountain attraction based on The Princess and the Frog. |
| 2019 | Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, and Chris Buck confirmed the possibility of making another 2D animated film at Disney. |
| 2019 | Klaus, a Netflix animated film, was released, involving some Disney artists interested in hand-drawn animation. |
| November 5 2019 | The film was released on 4K Blu-ray, expanding its home media format options for collectors and fans. |
| 2018 | Tiana appears in Ralph Breaks the Internet, where her initial character design sparked controversy due to inaccurate racial representation. Disney subsequently worked with Anika Noni Rose and Color of Change to redesign her appearance to more authentically represent an African-American princess. |
| October 6 2017 | The film received a limited one-week re-release in AMC Theatres as part of the Dream Big, Princess campaign. |
| September 2014 | Disney artists began working on Hullabaloo, an independent hand-drawn animated film project to revive the medium. |
| July 2014 | /Film noted that future hand-drawn animated films were likely 'killed' due to The Princess and the Frog's box office performance. |
| 2013 | Princess Tiana's Mardi Gras Celebration concluded its periodic returns to Disneyland. |
| 2013 | Frozen was released, having been originally conceived as a hand-drawn film but ultimately produced in CGI. |
| 2011 | Disney released Winnie the Pooh as part of their plan to continue producing hand-drawn animated films. |
| 2011 | Won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Randy Newman's 'Down in New Orleans'. |
| 2011 | Princess Tiana's Mardi Gras Celebration returns to Disneyland as part of the 'Limited Time Magic' family-fun weekends, running through 2013. |
| 2010 | Nominated for the Teen Choice Awards in the Animated Movie category. |
| October 3 2010 | Princess Tiana's Mardi Gras Celebration officially ends at Disneyland Park. |
| March 16 2010 | The Princess and the Frog was released in North America on DVD and Blu-ray, offering multiple home media editions including a combo pack with DVD, Digital Copy, and Blu-ray. |
| March 7 2010 | At the 82nd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Animated Feature and twice for Best Original Song (Randy Newman for 'Almost There' and 'Down in New Orleans'), but did not win. |
| February 6 2010 | The film was honored at the 37th Annie Awards Ceremony, winning three awards including Best Animated Feature, Animated Effects, and Character Animation in a Feature Production. |
| January 3 2010 | Tiana's Showboat Jubilee! ends its run at both Disney parks. |
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