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Disney: Company
built 650 days ago
Disney ... holds substantial interest in Lifetime (50%), A&E (37.5%), E! (40%, recently sold to Comcast), and Jetix Europe N.V. (74%). Disney also owns 25% of the GMTV company that operates the Breakfast Programmes on ITV, in the UK and 50% of Super RTL in Germany.
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Disney ... looks internally to meet guest expectations. The company identifies what it calls global and local service quality issues. Global measures include corporate issues like peak park attendance. Local issues deal with measures that are in the control of a group of cast members.
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Other recent Kushner-Locke titles that have been licensed by Buena Vista International, a subsidiary of Disney, include the international box-office success " The Adventures of Pinocchio" starring Martin Landau and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. The Kushner-Locke Co. handles international distribution and " The Adventures of Pinocchio" was released domestically by New Line. Additionally, Buena Vista Home Video has licensed the domestic distribution rights, as well as selected foreign territories of Kushner-Locke's and Hyperion's two new sequels to its successful " Brave Little Toaster" video title: " The Brave Little Toaster Goes to School" and " The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars." These titles are ... licensed to Disney Channel in the United Kingdom and will be part of The Disney Channel's movie lineup for 1998. The Kushner-Locke Co. is a leading independent producer and distributor of feature films, direct-to-video films, television series, made for television movies, mini-series and animated programming for theaters, network and cable television. Visit the company's Web site at www.kushner-locke.com .
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Cast members assigned to work in the casting office come from all different parts of the Disney organization. They work on 12-month assignments. Disney believes it's important to have people who actually work in different parts of the company do the hiring. An assignment to the casting office is a coveted job--one that most don't want to give up after their assignment ends.
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Still, that does not guarantee that AFA will never again call for a Disney boycott, should the company do something particularly egregious. "If, for example, Disney removed the clear Christian symbolism from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe film, then all bets would be off," he said. "So I guess one could say that, as far as we’re concerned, Disney is on probation."
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