Oscar-nominated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz will have her animation debut as the voice of smart guinea pig Juarez in producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday.

Combinining live action and computer animation (the animals are animated), the feature film will be released by Walt Disney Productions in May 2009.

Already signed to the voice cast are Nicolas Cage (Speckles), Steve Buscemi (Bucky) and Tracy Morgan (Blater). The live-action human actors include Bill Nighy and Will Arnett.

G-Force also marks the directorial debut of visual effects man Hoyt Yeatman, who won an Oscar for his work on The Abyss.

“Toy Story,” the first feature-length computer-animated film, and its 1999 sequel Toy Story 2 will be debuting in new digital 3D versions — both ahead of the release of Toy Story 3, Disney-Pixar has announced.

The revamped Toy Story, originally released in 1995, is scheduled to open on October 2, 2009; Toy Story 2 will be seen in 3D on February 12, 2010. Toy Story 3, which is being produced as a 3D motion picture, is scheduled to open on June 18, 2010.

Original director John Lasseter, who won a special achievement Oscar for the first Toy Story, will supervise the conversion. He vowed that audiences would be “blown away,” the Hollywood Reporter said.

Nominated a week ago for an Academy Award, the National Film Board of Canada cartoon Madame Tutli-Putli is one of three candidates announced Monday for the Genie Award for best animated short.

The winner of two awards at Cannes, the wordless Madame Tutli-Putli is the first film from Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.

Also nominated for a Genie in the category are two other NFB releases: Diane Obamsawin’s Here And There and George Schwizgebel’s wordless Jeu — a co-production with Switzerland’s Studio GDS and Télévision Suisse Romande.

Forget Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan: Mickey Mouse — or someone borrowing the celebrity Disney character’s name — has been arrested for DUI in Sacramento, California.

Arrest records indicate that within an hour last Thursday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department arrested one “Mickey Mouse” twice on charges of driving under the influence and once for driving on a revoked license.

Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran expressed surprise to hear that Mickey had been placed in custody.