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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A Disney journey has been on my wish list for years, so suppose my pleasure when my relatives called and pronounced they wanted to take a family on a Disney journey together!

We invited my husband’s family to join in on a fun, and they happily agreed. Thirteen adults, 5 kids, one baby, and 7 nights on a Mexican Riviera; would a Disney Wonder be prepared for a takeover?

The Wonder was ready, and we fast found a cruising rhythm, that essentially consisted of eating and visiting. Disney supposing all of a smashing amenities you’d design to find on a cruise: good food, award-winning shows, a pleasing ship, fun programs for a kids, a lovely, physic sauna center, and state-of-the-art gym.

But what creates Disney mount detached from a other journey lines is a good crafted and conscious family practice it offers in further to a common journey fare.

We played together all day prolonged and never ran low on options of what to do. We swam, played soccer, Ping-Pong, and ate thriving amounts of ice cream during a 24-hour ice cream bar, a favorite with a kids.

My sister Mary and we took on my sons Jonah and Davey in foosball with most hollering and pushing (girls won!). We also had a shuffleboard plea during slightest once a day. A few pucks might or might not have been thrown, we can’t truly say, though we were mostly good sports, and even Nana assimilated in a fun.

We ran a “Ultimate Race,” a scavenger hunt that takes place via a ship. Our mass organisation took over a hallways with a speed walking/light jogging (no using in a hallways, people), breathing adult and down stairs looking for and elucidate clues, a small ambience of a favorite uncover “Amazing Race.”

The Pirate Party night was a clear prominence of a week. The dusk kicked off with a themed cooking where we perceived bandit bandannas to wear. We all looked silly, and so did everybody else in a dining room. Our true servers Nino and Gerta entertained a kids and got them adult and dancing with a characters via a meal.

The Pirate Party on a pool rug after was value staying adult for: some-more dancing with a Disney characters, pirates rappelling down from beyond to “crash” a party, and Mickey drifting in to save a day with fireworks over a sea. You unequivocally couldn’t ask for most more, though maybe a late-night smorgasboard with a crepe station. And, of course, they delivered. We all went to bed that night with hearts and bellies full.

we am not customarily a fan of a stage; we most cite being usually a face in a crowd. But a journey somehow found me adult on theatre several times via a week: winning a mom diaper bag competition, singing karaoke (I can't sing), and dancing by myself to Usher in front of a throng in a Generations Game of kids vs. adults (adults won that round!). My kids gay in saying Mom get silly, and we have to admit, we had a flattering good time too. Disney creates an atmosphere where even a bashful mom like me can step out for a bit of fun.

Another special perk for families is a ship’s concentration on easy children. Is your baby a small strict during cooking or during a show? They will never be a usually one. Almost everybody on a boat is a primogenitor and has, or has had, a strict baby or sleepy toddler. The vigour is off to benefaction perfectly, so usually relax and suffer yourself.

And lastly, a Disney journey invites a adults to indulge in a bit of child fun too. There is no contrition in grouping off a kids’ menu, and we rarely suggest perplexing a mac-n-cheese and Mickey Mouse ice cream bars.

My sister and father strike adult a gym one morning, and my sister reported Dad had selected to watch Disney cartoons while on a treadmill. He had looked over during my sister, forked a ride during a screen, and pronounced “It’s not looking too good for Goofy here.” A few eyebrows had been raised, though that’s a excellence of it. When was a final time we watched Disney cartoons while operative out during a gym?

And there we have it folks, that’s a Disney journey vacation. No worries or agenda, usually good food and good fun. Try giving CNN a diminutive mangle and hang out with Goofy and a family for a week. The universe will be watchful on your return.

A mom of three, Annette Osborne can be reached during mominredding@gmail.com.

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Disney thesis parks will soon 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 the age of 14 after the company surveyed its 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.”

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 previously 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.

The Wizards Of Waverly Place and star Selena Gomez couldn’t utterly constraint a sorcery of a strike franchise’s heyday. Last night’s Disney Channel strange film The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex, delivered 5.9 million sum viewers. That was reduction than half a assembly of a 2009 TV film Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie (13.5 million), that ranks as a #2 wire TV film ever (behind High School Musical 2). Still, Alex vs. Alex did improved than new Disney Channel films like Girl Vs. Monster (4.9 million) and Let It Shine (5.7 million). It delivered 2.9 million Kids 2-11, 2.3 million Kids 6-11 and 2.2 million Tweens 9-14, ranking as a #1 wire TV telecast of 2013 to date in Tweens 9-14, a #2 wire TV telecast in Kids 2-11 and Kids 6-11, and a #1 kids’ wire TV telecast in Total Viewers. The hourlong special buoyed an all-new part of Gravity Falls to a array high in Total Viewers (4.5 million). It posted the #2 telecast ever in Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million) and #3 telecast in Kids 2-11 (2.5 million).

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Leah Zanolla | Posted: Feb 23, 2013 | Updated: Feb 23, 2013 – 8:27:44 AM

Last week, we discussed a possibility of Harrison Ford returning to play Han Solo in a arriving Star Wars: Episode VII, nonetheless Lucasfilm has nonetheless to endorse this rumor. In a same article, we questioned either or not Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) would return. Entertainment Weekly has oral with Mark Hamill and reliable “that discussions about probable destiny appearances of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia are indeed holding place though stressed that no contracts have been signed.”

Hamill pronounced he was approached by George Lucas interrogation if he was even meddlesome in personification a part, and that if not, he would be created out, not transposed by another actor. Hamill has no inside believe about a film’s storyline, though he is presumption a cinema would revolve around a children of a strange characters. He also pronounced he would adore to have as many of a strange expel as probable lapse for a new films. As a book is not nonetheless finished, it hasn’t been done transparent if a characters would come behind as a stars of a film, or only as ancillary cast.

His other wish for a array is to keep a CGI to a minimum. “I pronounced to George that we wanted to go behind to a approach it was, in a clarity that ours was most some-more untroubled and lightsome and humorous – in my opinion, anyway. we wish they find a right change of CGI with unsentimental effects. we adore props, we adore models, miniatures, matte paintings – I’m arrange of aged school. we consider if we go too distant in a instruction of CGI it winds adult looking like only a hulk video game, and that’s unfortunate. If they listen to me during all, it’ll be, ‘Lighten adult and go retro with a approach it looks.'”

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