Walt Disney Pictures James Franco in “Oz a Great and Powerful.”

“Oz a Great and Powerful” continued to expel a spell on moviegoers over a weekend, while another wizard — “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” — radically arrived to a carol of boos. “Oz” (Disney) took in an estimated $42.2 million during theaters in a United States and Canada, for a clever two-week sum of $145 million, according to Hollywood.com, that compiles box-office data.

Halle Berry incited out a larger-than-expected African American assembly for “The Call” (Sony), that placed second, with about $17.1 million in sheet sales; a film cost usually $15 million to make. Steve Carell’s “Burt Wonderstone” (Warner Brothers) was a unsatisfactory third, holding in an estimated $10.3 million. This film, that perceived gloomy reviews and a C-plus measure from audiences in exit polls, cost $32 million to make. Warner has now expelled 5 box-office dress in a row, including a enormously costly “Jack a Giant Slayer,” that was fourth for a weekend, holding in about $6.2 million, for a three-week sum of $53.9 million. “Identity Thief” (Universal) was fifth, offered $4.5 million in tickets, for a six-week sum of $123.7 million.

Since I’m now during Disney World, news that Disney Infinity sets, figures, and Power Disc packs are accessible for pre-order seems wise enough.

Disney Infinity is Disney’s (smart) try to gain on a success of Activision’s extravagantly renouned Skylanders franchise: toys that “come to life” when they bond to their video diversion counterpart. we adore Skylanders, and think that a authorization will usually get improved now that a arriving Swap Force game includes jumping.

It was usually a matter of time before somebody hopped on this train, and it’s no warn that Disney came second to market. Whether they’ll be means to embrace a Skylanders’ success is harder to predict.

The Disney Infinity sandbox-style diversion (toybox, really) is now accessible for preorder during several online and brick-and-mortar retailers like Amazon and Best Buy. The diversion itself includes story-specific games that revolve around several Disney IPs as good as a toybox, wherein players can fundamentally emanate their possess world.

Starter packs ring adult during $74.99 and include a game, an Infinity Base, 4 figures, 3 play sets, a Power Disc and a Power Pack. For $29.99 we get a three-figure set, and particular total will set we behind $12.99. Power Disc packs cost $4.99.

All of this is flattering allied to Skylanders, though that diversion has no energy discs or anything comparable.

Meanwhile, Disney Infinity has been behind until Aug of this year.

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Leah Zanolla | Posted: Mar 17, 2013 | Updated: Mar 17, 2013 – 3:39:40 PM

SeaWorld Orlando will reason Viva la Musica on Saturdays Apr 13 – May 4, an annual festival celebrating Latin culture. For a cost of a park’s unchanging admission, guest can suffer ubiquitous seating for a concerts, commencement during 3:00 any day. Latin low-pitched artists embody Daddy Yankee on Apr 13, Willie Colon on Apr 20, Grupomania on Apr 27, and El Gran Combo on May 4. Concerts are hold during Bayside Stadium, unless it is raining; concerts will afterwards be hold in a Nautilus Theater.

Other festivities embody a preference of Latin foods, that starts during noon. The VIP package is accessible for $24, that includes indifferent unison seating and a dish of snack and one side object or dessert, and beverage. If we usually wish indifferent seating for a concert, that is accessible for $14.

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As speaker for a REDCAT Gala on Saturday, Jack Black pronounced he had always hoped his entrance during a multidisciplinary museum would embody a opening of his “special post, post-modern interpretive dance,” finish with a “big energetic gymnastic finale.” He forked out, however, that instead of a common theatre during a Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, a venue that night had tables stuffing a room wall to wall.

“I know that CalArts and REDCAT enthuse artists to take risks,” Black said, “but we don’t consider that injuring a jubilee congregation is what they had in mind.”

For those wondering how a star of “Bernie,” “School of Rock” and “Kung Fu Panda” came to horde a gala, Black pronounced he married into a CalArts family. Black’s mother Tanya Haden complicated initial animation during a California Institute of a Arts, and her father, jazz bassist Charlie Haden, founded a CalArts Jazz Program.

The jubilee of REDCAT’s 10^th anniversary respected artist Catherine Opie and a Walt Disney Co. Artist Larri Pittman and actor Tim Allen, respectively, done a introductions.

On holding a podium, Pittman praised Opie, not usually for her appetite as an artist, though also for her amicable power, disadvantage and delight in nod new people.

“Larri done me cry,” Opie pronounced from onstage. She went on to honour REDCAT for reaching “not usually 10 years, though a decade,” that she called a pen of what is going to come in a subsequent 10 years.

“A decade means that it’s been here,” she said. “It’s staying around. It’s proven itself. It’s continued to enthuse us. It’s continued to move a village together, to move all these people together year after year, to give income to applaud a humanities and what a humanities meant in Los Angeles.”

For his part, Allen churned prepared records with unpretentious remarks. Having been named a Disney Legend once for his contributions to a company, he joked, “I know where my bread is buttered on. How else could they get me here?”

The star of “Home Improvement,” “Last Man Standing” and “The Santa Clause” films afterwards applauded a Walt Disney Co. for a continued joining to CalArts and REDCAT.

“As a voice of Buzz Lightyear, I’m a firsthand declare to a artistic talent of some CalArts Alumni,” Allen pronounced of a “Toy Story” cinema from Pixar, a animation studio packaged with CalArts grads.

Walt Disney Studios boss Alan Bergman supposed a endowment on interest of a company.

In gripping with a venue’s brave programming, for a night’s party Cynthia Hopkins sang a bird strain from her critically acclaimed show, “Must Don’t Whip ‘Em.” She finished by seeking congregation to join in with bird calls, that many did with enthusiasm.

Thanking REDCAT for giving her a courage, motivation, appetite and strength to continue with her work, she finished with a birthday tune, creatively created for a boat’s 100th year.

“For a place like [REDCAT] to not usually tarry though flower and develop for 10  years, it’s some-more considerable than a vessel durability for 100 years,” she said. This time, she asked a assembly to scream with her during her song’s finale, that they did.

Neda and Tim Disney and Cindy and Richard Grad chaired a gala, that lifted $600,000.

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Disney thesis parks will shortly need anyone underneath a age of 14 to be accompanied by someone who is comparison than 14, a Disney mouthpiece pronounced Saturday.

The new process will take outcome Mar 23 during all U.S. Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts and parks.

“If a expel member who is operative during a front gates sees a guest who appears to be younger than 14 but someone who appears to be comparison than that, they will rivet in a examination with a guest,” Disney mouthpiece Suzi Brown told NBC4.

The worker will verbally establish either a guest is too immature to enter on his or her own, given children that age typically do not lift marker with them, she said. The child’s primogenitor or defender would afterwards be contacted if a caller is underage, and that adult would need to physically come accompany a child into a park.

Disney chose a age of 14 after a association surveyed a guest and reached out to organizations that understanding with child welfare, Brown said. She pronounced both a organizations and visitors concluded on a new age limit.

“That was a age they felt was appropriate,” she said. “That’s also a age a Red Cross recommends for babysitting.”

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No sold occurrence triggered a change in policy, Brown added.

“We frequently examination all of a policies, and we identified an event to yield a unchanging age of acknowledgment and residence a doubt we spasmodic get from parents, ” Brown said. “The doubt is only if we have a smallest age.”

The Disneyland parks did not formerly have a set age for solo admission, and a age manners during Walt Disney World Resort sundry among a parks, she said.

“This was a pierce to move a unchanging age process opposite a domestic resorts,” Brown said.

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Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:09pm EDT

(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s “Oz a Great and Powerful” worked some-more box bureau sorcery in a second weekend, following adult a clever entrance a week progressing with $42.2 million in U.S. and Canadian sheet sales.

The “Wizard of Oz” prequel starring James Franco surfaced a stronger-than-expected opening from “The Call,” a new thriller about a 911 user played by Halle Berry who tries to save a kidnapped teenager. “The Call” warranted $17.1 million from Friday by Sunday, according to studio estimates.

“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” a new comedy featuring Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey as dueling Las Vegas magicians, finished a weekend in third place. It conjured adult $10.3 million during North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters – several million reduction than expected.

Domestic sheet sales for a big-budget, effects-filled “Oz” forsaken 47 percent from a opening weekend, according to a box bureau multiplication of Hollywood.com. Movies typically see a 40 percent to 60 percent decrease in their second weekend of release.

“Oz” combined $46.6 million over a weekend from general markets. Its tellurian sum after 10 days reached $282 million, a clever start for a film that cost $200 million to make and adult to $100 million some-more to market.

“The Call” handily kick pre-weekend forecasts of a entrance of around $10 million. The $15 million prolongation overperformed on clever word-of-mouth, display itself to be “a genuine crowd-pleaser,” pronounced Rory Bruer, boss of worldwide placement for Sony Corp’s Sony Pictures studio, that acquired a film from Troika Pictures.

“People like this film a lot, and it’s going to be a large success for us,” Bruer said, adding that “the film could finish adult doing anywhere from $40 million to $50 million, that would be huge.”

“Burt Wonderstone,” meanwhile, fell brief of some pre-weekend forecasts, that had pegged a entrance during $12 million to $15 million. The film had a medium bill of about $30 million, according to Warner Bros.

“Obviously we didn’t wish to come in number-three this weekend, though it’s not for miss of trying,” pronounced Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. boss of melodramatic distribution.

The executive pronounced a studio harbored hopes that arriving propagandize open breaks would stoke a film’s box office, adding that “with a bill being as reasonable as it was, I’m certain during a finish of a day that we’ll be okay.”

Rounding out a tip of a charts, a big-budget film “Jack a Giant Slayer” took fourth place with $6.2 million domestically. The tellurian sum for a Mar 1 release, that is perplexing to make behind a $189 million prolongation cost, reached scarcely $90 million.

In fifth place, Melissa McCarthy comedy “Identity Thief” combined $4.5 million to a considerable $123.7 million total.

“Jack a Giant Slayer” was expelled by Warner Bros. “Identity Thief” was distributed by Universal Pictures, a section of Comcast Corp.

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Chris Michaud; Editing by Will Dunham)

Leah Zanolla | Posted: Feb 21, 2013 | Updated: Feb 21, 2013 – 3:08:27 PM

89.3 million people visited Florida in 2012, a new tourism record for a state. In 2011, there were 2.3 percent reduction visitors, with a numbers entrance in during 87.3 million. These numbers were gathered in an annual news from a state’s tourism selling firm, Visit Florida. Interestingly, a news even goes so distant as to mangle down a numbers by domestic and abroad visitors. 10.2 million of a tourists visiting Florida came from abroad and there were 1.2 percent some-more domestic visitors than final year.

Visit Florida Board of Directors Chairman Glenn Hastings said, “Surpassing a 10 million abroad caller symbol for a initial time ever is a poignant miracle for Florida’s tourism industry. With over 10 percent of all Canadians roving to Florida final year, we are awfully beholden for a faithfulness of a friends and family to a North.”

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Leah Zanolla | Posted: Feb 23, 2013 | Updated: Feb 23, 2013 – 7:16:04 AM

Universal Orlando is dropping health caring coverage for their part-time employees commencement in 2014. The new process is due to a change in sovereign health caring laws that would shorten annual boundary on word payouts. Universal offering a devise like this to their part-time staff, that also guaranteed a employees reduce premiums. Their stream devise costs employees $18 per week and has a limit payout for services. For example, annual sanatorium coverage stops during $5,000. There are about 500 part-time employees that will be influenced by a change.

Universal orator Tom Schroder said, “We caring about a group members and we wish them to have a best, most-affordable medical advantages we can provide. This sold emanate affects about 3 percent of a 17,000 group members, and we’re going to continue to work toward a solution.”

With a new changes in a law, anyone who doesn’t accept word from their employers is still compulsory to squeeze it, though they might validate for financial assistance to compensate for it if needed.

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Lightning McQueen, Mater, Flo and other characters from a renouned Pixar film “Cars” competition into Radiator Springs only in time for a summer vacation deteriorate currently as Disney’s Art of Animation Resort opens a second proviso of a new family suites skill during Walt Disney World Resort. Less than a month ago, Disney’s Art of  Animation Resort non-stop a initial proviso of family suites, themed to Finding Nemo.

In a new Cars wing, featuring 480 family suites, a creatively paved highway leads guest on a biggest highway outing ever, a journey down memory line to tiny city America — Radiator Springs.  Parked during a entryway Sheriff and  a infamous  Doc Hudson acquire folks into town, along with other automobile “faces” parked along a road.  There’s backdrops of Luigi’s Casa Della Tires, Tow Mater Towing and a Wheel Well Motel, formulating an authentic environment carried from a super-charged adventure.

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One Republic – Recording Artist

Melissa Jeselnick – Walt Disney Imagineering (Test Track)

Ginnifer Goodwin – Actress, Once Upon a Time

Jordin Sparks – Entertainer

Andy Garcia – Actor (English Spanish)

Jodi Benson – Voice of Ariel, The Little Mermaid

Tom Staggs – Chairman, Walt Disney Parks Resorts

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