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Category Archives: LA Times
Disneyland Paris to Debut New Water Show
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To help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Disneyland Paris, Disney has announced a new night time event that will take place in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle as well as a reimagined evening parade.
According to the LA Times, the new Disney Dreams show will basically combine parts of the Magic, Memories, and You and the World of Color at Disney California Adventure. The show will feature water screens, dancing fountains, projections onto the castle, pyrotechnic displays, and laser effects.
The Disney Dreams nighttime spectacular will be a show about courage and compassion that follows the adventures of Peter Pan’s shadow. The story will feature many Disney and Pixar films including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Wall-E, Tron, Tangled, and Toy Story.
The current parade at Disneyland Paris will also be transformed. The daytime Once Upon a Dream Parade will become a nighttime parade called Disney Magic on Parade. It will have a theme of light and color as a part of the anniversary celebration. The opening and closing floats will be redesigned. Two carriages with carousel type horses will feature Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty along with their Princes. The finale float will have Mickey and other Disney characters in Sorcerers Apprentice costumes. There will also be all new music, costumes, and choreography.
I am wishing now more than ever that I could make a trip to Disneyland Paris this year.
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CEO Bob Iger says Disney will have movies, TV shows, games at retooled Disney.com
The LA Times reports on some new changes coming to Disney.com websites.
The Walt Disney Co. is rebuilding its outdated Disney.com website to make movies, television shows and games directly available to consumers. Disney President and Chief Executive Robert A. Iger said the company’s portal will be redefined as an “uber-network” for all things Disney, where entertainment would be offered by way of subscription, pay-per-view or supported with advertising. The relaunch is expected within a year, he said.
“We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand,” Igers said Thursday at the All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes. ”People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.”
The Disney.com website has undergone multiple iterations, beginning with a failed attempt in the late 1990s to become one of the central destinations on the Web — vying with the likes of Yahoo! and Microsoft Corp. Disney would later eliminate 800 jobs and write off $800 million of its investment in the family-friendly Go.com venture.
Since those days, the Disney.com site has sought to balance dual goals, as a promotional site for all of Disney’s film, television and music offerings, and as an entertainment destination that would attract advertising revenue.
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Protesters dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse arrested at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank
This article comes to us from LA Times:
Protesters dressed as Mickey and Minnie Mouse were arrested Wednesday morning after they chained themselves to the gates of the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank.
The two costumed activists were protesting what they said was the company’s use of paper that contains fiber from endangered Indonesian rain forests in its children’s books.
The protesters arrived about 7 a.m. and chained themselves to the gate while two others unfurled a banner over the company’s entrance gate.
“Today’s protest is a loud and colorful message to the executives at Disney that it’s totally unacceptable for them to continue to drag their feet when Indonesian rain forests are falling at one of the highest rates in the world,” said Laurel Sutherlin, a spokesman for Rainforest Action Network, which organized the protest.
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Disney Interactive Studios has closed its Vancouver, Canada-based game development studio Propaganda Games
This sad news comes to us from LA Times.
Disney Interactive Studios has closed its Vancouver, Canada-based game development studio Propaganda Games, representing another in a series of shake-ups since John Pleasants was installed last fall as head of the games group.
Propaganda recently completed work on Tron: Evolution, a console game that explores events leading up to the conflict in the film “Tron: Legacy.” Even though it featured voice talent from the film, sales have been weak. Disney has sold only 190,755 copies, according to NPD Group.
The Canadian studio had been hit with a round of layoffs last October, after Disney cancelled Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, a role-playing game inspired by the movie franchise. Propaganda employed about 70 people.
Propaganda’s closing signals a new emphasis for the games group under Pleasants, who was brought into Disney with the acquisition last summer of online social gaming company Playdom, where he was chief executive. He oversees all of Disney’s video game business, including console titles, mobile and online games, and Web-based virtual worlds such as Club Penguin and the recently launched World of Cars.
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3-D film studio that works on Disney films is moving from California to Florida
This article comes to us from the Orlando Sentinels Daily Disney column.
According to several published reports this past week, a visual-effects studio that has worked on recent Disney films such as “Tron: Legacy” and Tim Burton‘s “Alice in Wonderland” soon will move its operations from California to Port St. Lucie.
The move should bring about 70 jobs to the state, and more are forecast.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Digital Domain Productions Inc., based in Venice, Calif., was in the process of acquiring Westlake Village, Calif.-based In-Three Inc.
In-Three was founded in 1999 and has been at the forefront of converting films into the popular 3-D format. The company developed and patented a process called “Dimensionalization,” which it has used to convert 2-D films. In addition to Disney films “Tron: Legacy” and “Alice in Wonderland,” the studio also worked on Disney’s “G Force” production, too.
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