The most powerful woman in showbusiness is giving her seal of approval to the next Disney Animated film. Yes, no less a personage than Oprah Winfrey is set to voice Eudora, the mother of the lead character in The Princess and the Frog.
The story is set in New Orleans during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and is a traditionally-animated Disney fairytale musical about Tiana and her amphibious love. Randy Newman wrote the score, and the voice cast already included Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls) as Tiana, Keith David as Dr Facilier, a voodoo practitioner, and John Goodman as Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff, a wealthy sugar mill owner.
The Little Mermaid directors Ron Clements and John Musker are directing, so think old-school Disney through and through.
Oprah feels like a good addition to the cast - she has lots of experience in voicing animation, from Charlotte's Web and Bee Movie, both of which she had small roles in. And if nothing else, this should give the box-office another boost if she so much as mentions it on her show, or in her magazine, or in passing to her hairdresser.