As partial of Limited Time Magic, Walt Disney World and Disneyland are expanding their Fourth of Jul celebrations to an whole week, featuring nightly fireworks for 7 days. Independence Week will take place Jul 1-7, 2013 featuring a nationalistic fantastic opposite mixed thesis parks.

At Magic Kingdom, a 15-minute 360-degree fireworks fantastic will rocket into a atmosphere any night with ”Disney’s Celebrate America! A Fourth of Jul Concert in a Sky.” Also partial of a daily festivities will be Goofy, Donald and Pluto heading a energetic way down Main Street, U.S.A, before to a daily Celebrate a Dream Come True parade. The pre-parade will underline a Main Street Philharmonic, Citizens of Main Street and Walt Disney’s ancestral horse-drawn calliope. Patriotic-themed sell and juicy treats desirous by Americana will also be on a menu all week long.

At Disneyland Park in California, “Disney’s Celebrate America! A Fourth of Jul Concert in a Sky.” In this nationalistic fireworks fantastic will also be featured any night, Jul 1-7.

At Disneyland Resort, Mickey Mouse greets guest in star-spangled, nationalistic clothes any dusk in Town Square on Main Street, U.S.A. Illuminated Mouse Ears “Glow with a Show” during performances of both “Celebrate America!” during Disneyland and a nationalistic pre-show to “World of Color” during Disney California Adventure Park.

The fireworks fantastic takes place during 9 p.m. on Jul 3 and 4, and 10 p.m. on Jul 1, 2 ,5, 6 and 7 during Walt Disney World and 9:30 p.m. any night during Disneyland.

Then on Jul 4th only, Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios will join in a Independence Day jubilee during Walt Disney world.

At Epcot, guest will be means to accommodate with Disney characters ornate in nationalistic dress and declare a nationalistic opening by a Voices of Liberty during 12:30 p.m. in a America Gardens Theatre, also featuring a Spirit of America Fife and Drum Corps and Disney characters. The day culminates with The Heartbeat of Freedom, a special fireworks reverence following IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth during 10 p.m.

Characters in nationalistic dress are on set from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and from 3:30 – 6 p.m. outward nearby Kidcot (under a porte-cochere). Voices of Liberty showtimes during America Gardens Theatre are 12:30, 1:45, and 3 p.m. They are also doing dual sets inside a American Adventure Rotunda during 4:15 and 5 p.m. Special showtimes for Slippery When Wet (Sounds Like Summer unison series) on a Fourth of Jul are 5:15, 6:30, 7:45, and 9 p.m.

At Disney Hollywood Studios, a all-new “Rockin’ 4th of Jul Celebration” will start during a Sorcerer Hat with a DJ during 6 pm, followed by performances by Mulch, Sweat Shears during 7, 8, 9 and 10 p.m. and a fireworks display during 10:15 p.m.

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“Saving Mr. Banks,” starring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson and Colin Farrell, will be widely expelled on Dec. 20. The film is about how “Mary Poppins” was combined and a severe attribute Walt Disney had with a book’s author P.L. Travers and how Disney struggled to make a movie. Hanks is personification Walt Disney.

Kermit a Frog, Miss Piggy and other members of a Muppets squad come behind subsequent year in a “Muppets Most Wanted,” a supplement to a 2011 film “The Muppets.” It will arrive in theaters Mar 21. The film stars Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell.

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Disney also announced a recover of “Planes: Fire Rescue,” that will strike theaters in 3D on Jul 18, 2014, followed by DreamWorks’ “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” approaching to open Aug. 8, 2014.

Later in a year, “Alexander and a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” will arrive in theaters in October. The film stars Steve Carrell and Jennifer Garner and is formed on a children’s book that focuses on all a bad things that occur to a family after a child wishes his family would knowledge all a terrible things he does.

“Tomorrowland” was pushed adult to be expelled Dec. 12, 2014. The much-anticipated “Into a Woods,” formed on a strike Broadway musical, arrives Christmas Day 2014.

Disney also announced dates for dual Marvel films that sojourn untitled. The initial comes out May 6, 2016, followed by another on May 5, 2017. “Avengers 2” is approaching to strike theaters May 1, 2015.

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If we were Cinderella, we would keep an eye on that potion slipper.

Disney World is now offered shiny, illusory collectibles that are made like boots and desirous by dear charcterised characters. The shoes, about 3.5 inches tall, can also do double-duty as Christmas ornaments.

The boots are not reproductions of, say, a boots that Snow White sported in her 1937 film debut, though instead paint a characters’ looks and personalities.

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“You have to demeanour during their costumes and their facilities and kind of paint those in any of a shoes,” says Costa Alavezos, one of a Disney Design Group artists who designed a shoe line.

Some are candid and simply recognizable. A red shoe with white polka dots and rodent ears on a sides? So Minnie Mouse. Green with wings? Hello, Tinker Bell.

Others competence take a impulse to catch all a sum before identifying her impression companion. Playing cards line a inside of a Queen of Hearts shoe; a peacock design is on a outward of a Evil Queen shoe. Have difficulty identifying characters? Their autographs are on a bottom of a shoe. (Still, it’s humorous to consider of a sovereign essay “Evil Queen” as her signature.)

“The black has a lot some-more sum since of a peacock feathers and a wealth that hang around, and we have all a bullion and all a glitter,” Alavezos says. “I consider it was some-more time-consuming for a bureau to produce.”

The several shoe forms are not all from a same mold, distinct a infancy of Disney’s Vinylmation line, that starts with a vacant board of a Mickey Mouse figurine. The Cruella De Vil shoe is longer and pointier, reflecting a “101 Dalmatians” character’s pointy personality.

“You demeanour during her wardrobe and her hair and whatever else she likes — puppy dogs — so we kind of put a collar on a front with a small dog tab that’s unresolved on a side.” Alavezos says.

The heels get star diagnosis in several of a 19 designs. Rapunzel’s heel looks like braided hair. The shoe of Ursula, footless villainess, rests on a leg heel. Mary Poppins is propped adult by a hoop of her ubiquitous umbrella.

Not all a characters are princesses.

“We know there are fans, yes, of Cinderella and Rapunzel and Ariel, though there are also fans that like some other characters,” says Steven Miller, sell communications manager.

“It’s good to be means to offer a balance, a good brew of impression designs,” Miller says.

One shoe distinguishes itself from a other 18: It’s desirous by a masculine character. The high heel for Jack Skellington (“Nightmare Before Christmas”) has a bat and jack-o’-lantern motif.

“If he goes well, afterwards there are other masculine ones” watchful in a wings, Alavezos says.

Each shoe has an eyelet and badge so it can be hung from a Christmas tree. Remove a badge and a shoe can stay on arrangement year-round as a knickknack.

The shoes, that sell for $22.95 apiece, are accessible in name theme-park stores and during a Disney’s Days of Christmas store during Downtown Disney.

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Marc Platt, Marshall, John DeLuca and Disney furnish a film that is approaching to start filming in London this September. “Chicago” Oscar leader Marshall is directing.

Casting reports prove that Emily Blunt might play a Baker’s Wife, with Meryl Streep to play a Witch, “Sweeney Todd” star Johnny Depp to execute a Wolf and Tony Award leader James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) expected to execute a Baker.

Travey Ullman was recently reported to be in talks to play Jack’s Mother.

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Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred in a Off-Broadway play If There Is we Haven’t Found It Yet, and Chris Pine, seen on a New York theatre in The Atheist, are in talks to play a Princes; while Tony Award leader Christine Baranski (Hurlyburly, The Real Thing, “Mamma Mia!”) is also in negotiations for a film – she was partial of a reading of a screenplay instrumentation of Into a Woods final fall, where she played Cinderella’s Stepmother. 

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Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Into a Woods book author Lapine authored a screenplay formed on his possess book for a 1988 musical. During an Oct reading of a screenplay, Lapine had streamlined a low-pitched into a two-hour diagnosis for a screen.

Composer-arranger David Krane (Road to Qatar), who penned a arrangements for Marshall’s film adaptations of Chicago and Nine, is operative on arrangements for a Into a Woods film adaptation. DeLuca also constructed Marshall’s shade adaptations of “Nine” and “Chicago.”

Into a Woods facilities a Tony-winning measure by Sondheim and Tony-winning book by Lapine, who also staged both Broadway productions of a musical. Into a Woods premiered on Broadway in 1987 during a Martin Beck Theatre starring Bernadette Peters, Chip Zien, Joanna Gleason, Kim Crosby and Robert Westenberg. The strange expel opening was recorded by PBS’ American Playhouse in 1991. A 2002 Broadway reconstruction played a Broadhurst Theatre.

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The follow-up to 2011′s The Muppets only got a small some-more specific. Previously patrician Muppets…Again! a Disney movie’s new pretension is Muppets Most Wanted.

The new moniker is wise for a movie’s storyline that has a Muppets caught in an general crime hop headed by Constantine — a world’s No. 1 criminal, who has a distinguished similarity to Kermit — and his sidekick Dominic, played by Ricky Gervais. Modern Family star Ty Burrell and Tina Fey also star in a film opening Mar 21, 2014.

Disney expelled updates on a few of a other arriving films Thursday. Read on for a latest on Into a Woods, Saving Mr. Banks, and more.

• Rob Marshall’s film instrumentation of Tony-winning low-pitched Into a Woods has been set for a Dec. 25, 2014 release. Among a actors trustworthy to a plan are Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Another low-pitched is also set to open that Christmas Day: Into a Woods will go adult opposite Jay-Z’s refurbish on Annie, starring immature Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis during a box office. Last year saw a successful Dec. 25 opening for Les Misèrables.

• Saving Mr. Banks, that depicts a creation of Mary Poppins and stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney himself, will now be in some theaters a small progressing than creatively planned. The film will keep a Dec. 20, 2013 far-reaching recover date though will start rolling out with a singular recover a week prior, on Dec. 13, 2013 (the same day The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens).

• Tomorrowland, a puzzling plan being destined by Brad Bird, has altered a recover date by one week. The movie, co-written by Damon Lindelof and EW’s possess Jeff Jensen, will open on Dec. 12, 2014 instead of a Dec. 19, 2014. That gets Tomorrowland in theaters forward of a final Hobbit film, that opens on Wednesday, Dec. 17 that year.

• Alexander and a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, an instrumentation of a children’s book of a same title, now has a recover date of Oct. 10, 2014. Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner will star.

• Upcoming charcterised film Planes has taken off in a approach no one primarily expected. It was creatively firm for a direct-to-DVD release, though Disney announced late final year that it would get a museum recover on Aug. 9, 2013. Now a House of Mouse is announcing a supplement for a project, called Planes: Fire and Rescue, that will open Jul 18, 2014.

• Steven Spielberg- and Oprah Winfrey-produced book instrumentation The Hundred-Foot Journey also got a recover date: Aug. 8, 2014. The film is about an Indian child vital in France who becomes a culinary neophyte to his father’s rival.

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The website themeparkinsider.com is stating that a vital renovate is entrance to Disney’s Hollywood Studios; one that would embody not usually a rumored Cars Land, though also – Star Wars Land. We initial discussed a probability of Cars Land entrance to Florida behind in Jul 2012 and ever given Disney bought Lucasfilm, fans have hoped for a Star Wars Land. Among a reasons cited by Theme Park Insider is a boom in attendance during Disney California Adventure, adult 23% given Cars Land non-stop final year. Walt Disney World’s new president, George Kalogridis, was streamer adult a Disneyland Resort during a time, so his pierce to Florida could have been really strategic. Word is that Cars Land will take a place of not usually a Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, though a Backlot Tour as well. Geographically, this would place Cars Land right subsequent to Pixar Place and Toy Story Mania. The site states that rumors are fixation a new Star Wars Land subsequent to Star Tours, and stealing possibly MuppetVision3D and a Honey, we Shrunk a Kids Movie Set Adventure or a Backlot Express and Indiana Jones amphitheater. If this comes to fruition, a transform should be finished in 2018.

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(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s TV sports network, ESPN, pronounced it will tighten a 3D wire channel in a United States, finale a three-year examination after sports fans unsuccessful to welcome a record in their homes.

ESPN launched a 3D wire channel in 2010 and will tighten a channel by a finish of a year, pronounced ESPN mouthpiece Katina Arnold. It presented 3D broadcasts of college football games and a Masters golf tournament, among other offerings.

Despite disappearing costs for 3D televisions and widespread use of 3D in movies, consumers have not rushed to move a record into their homes.

ESPN 3D was autocratic monthly fees on normal of $2.79 per subscriber from wire and satellite operators this year, among a top for a wire channel, according to investigate organisation SNL Kagan. Pay TV providers also compensate $5.54 on normal for a flagship ESPN network.

The network was carried by vital operators such as DirecTV, Time Warner Cable Inc and Comcast Corp in several programming packages.

“They were only too early,” SNL Kagan researcher Derek Baine said. “This record is not prepared for primary time.”

ESPN will continue to examination with other technologies including Ultra High Definition, or ultra HD, for a programming on ESPN and a sister channels, Arnold said.

“We are committing a 3D resources to other products and services that will improved offer fans and affiliates,” she said.

The network could lapse to 3D programming “if or when 3D does take off,” she added.

ESPN, a widespread U.S. sports network and a vital motorist of Disney’s earnings, operates a flagship ESPN channel and others, including ESPN2 and Spanish denunciation ESPN Deportes.

Disney shares were down 0.5 percent during $63.45 on Wednesday afternoon on a New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Liana B. Baker in Washington; modifying by Ronald Grover and Matthew Lewis)

Disney XD is giving kids tons of action-packed reasons to contend indoors this summer with a network’s many desirous programming line-up yet. The young, male-driven network will betray a slew of array and specials this deteriorate including Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, premiering Sunday Jul 7, and Marvel’s Hulk and a Agents of S.M.A.S.H., premiering Sunday, Aug. 11. The network has also partnered with a X Games for 4 apart specials, airing nightly Jul 22-25. All of a “Non-Stop Summer” fun strictly creates a dash on Monday, Jun 17. Here are a highlights:

Chicken…I Dare You, Jun 17-Aug. 26
NBA star Dwight Howard joins Disney XD’s fan-favorite dress duck and a networks’ biggest names in this campaign, that lets viewers opinion online to brave their favorite stars to go head-to-head with The Chicken. Voting beginnings on Jun 17, and a waggish hijinks will atmosphere on Monday nights commencement Jun 24.

Truckasaurus Monday Mayhem, Jul 8, 8:30/7:30c
Get prepared to start your engines with all-new episodes of Lab Rats, Kickin’ It and Crash Bernstein for a night of monster-truck themed programming. Viewers can also competition over to disneyxd.com to play a racing diversion Titans on a Track.

Randomation Animation, commencement Jul 13, 8:30 a.m./7:30c
Need a reason to arise adult on Saturday morning? Spankin’ new cartoons! The animation block, that will atmosphere via a season, facilities beginner array Packages From Planet X and Camp Lakebottom as good as returning favorites Max Steel and Randy Cunningham: 9^th Grade Ninja and a Phineas and Ferb low-pitched countdown hosted by Kelly Osbourne.

Monday Night Overdrive, Jul 22, 8:30/7:30c
Lab Rats and Crash Bernstein kick-off this luminary sports-themed night. Athletes from a NFL, NASCAR and a X Games will join in on a fun – NASCAR’s Joey Logano and a Philadelphia Eagles’ DeSean Jackon are set to make cameo appearances.

Crash Bernstein, one-hour special, Jul 29, 8:30/7:30c
The live-action puppet uncover will atmosphere a one-hour special episode, that has tapped Tony Award-winning singer Andrea Martin and The Waterboy‘s John Farley as guest stars.

TRYathlon, Aug. 12 and 19, 9/8c
Kids fans join a favorite Disney XD and Disney Channel stars in this special event, that a network says, “inspires kids and families to try a accumulation of new foods, fun moves, and elementary ways to be your best.”

Check out this disdainful summer footage in Disney XD’s “Non-Stop Summer” remix video. The song video will strictly premiere during a telecast of Kickin’ It on Monday, Jun 17, 8:30/7:30c.

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As video diversion players schooled from Activision’s Skylanders franchise, a multiple of toys and games can infer utterly renouned and lucrative.

So what happens when we mix that character of diversion with characters from Toy Story, Pirates of a Caribbean and other informed names? Players get Disney Infinity, that launches after this year for a PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Wii U.

Several of Disney’s important franchises will be represented, such as The Incredibles and just-announced Lone Ranger. Each authorization will have a possess play set, featuring several hours of story-driven action. The diversion includes figurines that players move to life within a video diversion regulating a special portal, that accommodates adult to dual characters during a same time.

During a demo of a Pirates of a Carribean play set, Jack Sparrow fights off a accumulation of rivalry turtles en track to his bandit ship. Midway by a stage, Sparrow’s movement figure is pulled from a portal in preference of Davy Jones, who is immediately bearing into diversion action.

The theatre we confront facilities a bandit boat players contingency drive in a fun naval conflict suggestive of Assassin’s Creed. Along with a primary storyline, players will have other mini-games sparse via a level. To say a virginity of a storyline, usually characters tied to a playset will work in that world. So, we can’t move The Incredibles into a land of Toy Story.

However, there is a Toy Box mode that creates Infinity generally intriguing. Players will be means to emanate any playset they can imagine. They can start from blemish with a array of templates or use a vacant canvas. They can adjust terrain, supplement elements like water, or obstacles to emanate their possess digital diversion level. It’s identical in some ways to PlayStation 3 strike LittleBigPlanet.

Players can mingle characters from all universes into a Toy Box, as good as use Power Discs that supplement special rigging such as vehicles or themes. But here’s where Infinity shows a lot of promise: these player-created levels can be uploaded and common with friends. So, there is intensity for large hours of movement by simply exploring other players’ worlds.

Disney has nonetheless to exhibit sum on how most a diversion or apart movement total will cost, though it appears Disney Infinity could be a large strike among kids when it launches this August.

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