Whale Rider director Niki Caro is to direct Disney's live-action version of Mulan, making her only the second woman to be hired by Disney to helm a $100m+ project. Woohoo! More details on the project here.
(And for those of you who missed it, Niki's chat with Roseanne Liang at a DEGNZ event late last year contained some surprising comments on working within the Disney machine...)