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Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award(R)-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation. Creator of some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including "Toy Story," "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles," "Cars," and most recently, "Ratatouille." The Northern California studio has won 20 Academy Awards(R) and its eight films have grossed more than $4 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The next film release from Disney-Pixar is "WALL-E" (June 27, 2008).
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"George J. Mitchell, who has just assumed one of the most challenging jobs in corporate America as chairman of the embattled Walt Disney Company, will need all of his skills as a negotiator to win over disgruntled shareholders. Mr. Mitchell, 70, a former United States senator who has little business experience, said in a telephone interview yesterday that he had no desire to play the corporate strategist, as many chairmen do. For now, Mr. Mitchell, who was the presiding director of Disney's board until Wednesday night's appointment, said he was not planning on finding a successor for Mr. Eisner, as dissident investors have demanded. And Mr. Eisner said in an interview that he did not plan to leave anytime soon." From The New York Times.
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While The Walt Disney Company has long supported children's hospitals both locally and around the world, Florida Children's Hospital will become the first hospital in history to bear the Disney name. The official name of the hospital will be announced at a later date.
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The Walt Disney Company announced that starting January of 2008, the Disney-Hollywood Studios will be renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios! This was speculated on yesterday's article, but now it is as good as gold. Also announced was a slew of new attractions and updates parkwide. Continue reading for all the information....
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Walt Disney ... envisioned this project as incorporating a working community where his ideas about urban planning could be tested. He called this concept the "Experimental Prototype Community (or City) of Tomorrow," or EPCOT. The theme park that eventually opened under the Epcot name bore little resemblance to this vision, though the neighboring planned community of Celebration, which was founded by the Walt Disney Company, incorporates a few of the ideas.
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Walt Disney's nephew Roy E. Disney angrily resigns from the Walt Disney Company board of directors. Among his issues with Michael Eisner: "The timidity of your investments in our theme park business. At Disney's California Adventure, Paris, and now in Hong Kong, you have tried to build parks 'on the cheap' and they show it and the attendance figures reflect it."
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