My daughter and I just got a tour of the studio where they make all the Barbie Movies. Their newest project to be released in February 2009 is Barbie as Thumbelina.It is connected with the Fairytopia movies, I believe. Looking forward to Barbie in A Christmas Carol which will be released in November.
Here's why: link
After the success of Barbie in the Nutcracker in 2001 and Barbie of Swan Lake in 2003, Mattel Entertainment was supposed to adapt the third installment of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty ballet into a Barbie film, titled Barbie as The Sleeping Beauty. However, the Walt Disney Company currently has a trademark application pending with the US Patent and Trademark Office, filed March 13, 2007, for the name "Princess Aurora" that would cover all live and recorded movie, television, radio, stage, computer, Internet, news, and photographic entertainment uses, except literature works of fiction and nonfiction. This has caused controversy because "Princess Aurora" is also the name of the lead character in Tchaikovsky's ballet version of the story, from which Disney acquired some of the music for its animated 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. The move also could sink any movie about the ballet or that uses a scene of the ballet in another movie. This has caused Mattel to abandon Barbie as The Sleeping Beauty film production. Therefore, a campaign has emerged to complain to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office if people feel this trademarking of a pre-existing character name should not be allowed.