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27.06.26 - 14:42
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Celebration or Cotino? Which Disney Community Makes More Sense For Retirees? (24/7 Wall St.)
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A couple in their 60s grew up on Disney. They honeymooned in Orlando, took their children to Disneyland and Walt Disney World repeatedly over the years, and now take the grandchildren when they can. Disney is more than a vacation destination for them. It is part of the family story. The attention to detail, the ... Celebration or Cotino? Which Disney Community Makes More Sense For Retirees?...
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26.06.26 - 16:06
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Disney′s Parks Revamp Includes Aquatic Robots and Hovering Star Wars Droids (Bloomberg)
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Inside a Walt Disney Co. research and development lab, supported by some heavy-duty scaffolding, sits a wooden manta ray prototype roughly the size of a car. If all goes according to plan, the final version will be able to transform into the Gramma Tala character from Moana, used at a lagoon in a Disney park sometime soon. Down the line, the company will add a fleet of dolphin-like robots to the experience....
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25.06.26 - 20:18
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Can a $290m film studio on a former cow paddock lure Hollywood to Perth? (The Guardian)
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Australia is drawing record levels of international screen production – and Western Australia is betting millions that Perth Film Studios can bring some of it westTom Avison is just back from Los Angeles when I meet him at Perth Film Studios on a warm May morning. The studio's inaugural chief executive was on a whirlwind sales trip, squeezing “about 16 or 17 meetings” into four days with the likes of Netflix, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney. “Basically any production company that you can think of,” he says. “They want to know what's going on.”Back at the major new facility in Whiteman, on Perth's semi-rural north-eastern fringe, the British screen executive is in tour guide mode: affable, brisk, fluent in the strange mix of logistics and optimism required to launch a studio from scratch. Before Perth, Avison helped open Sky Studios Elstree outside London, a major production base that launched with Wicked and later hosted Jurassic World and Bridget Jones. But the Perth role – which he ...
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24.06.26 - 19:24
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The Retirement Portfolio for Grandparents Who Want to Say Yes (24/7 Wall St.)
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A Utah couple with two children and four grandchildren nearby has a retirement goal that has nothing to do with yachts or sports cars. They want to be the grandparents who can say “yes.” Yes to helping with travel hockey. Yes to a week at the lake. Yes to Disney. Yes to contributing toward a ... The Retirement Portfolio for Grandparents Who Want to Say Yes...
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23.06.26 - 15:03
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As America Celebrates 250 Years, Disney′s Economic Impact Reaches All 50 States (Business Wire)
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New coast-to-coast attraction, thousands of small business relationships, and a growing economic footprint underscore Disney's role in the American economyANAHEIM, Calif. & LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the nation prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, Disney Experiences is making available a set of resources highlighting the company's domestic economic impact — a story that reaches far beyond its theme park gates and into communities across the country.
Disney Parks & Resorts generates nearly $67 billion in annual economic impact across the United States and supports more than 403,000 jobs nationwide. Disney works with thousands of small businesses throughout the U.S. spanning manufacturing and food service to creative design and engineering fueling entrepreneurship and strengthening local economies across the country.
This summer, that nationwide footprint comes to life with the debut of Soarin' Across America, a reimagined fan-favorite attraction that takes...
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